Knowledge and beliefs of women regarding health screening of detection breast cancer in el Gharbia governorate / Marwa Ahmed Foad ; Supervised Magda A. Fawaz , Enas Helmy Elshair

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Maternal and Newborn Health Nursing

Aim: was to identify women knowledge and beliefs of breast cancer screening practice. Sample:A convenience sample of four hundred women was recruited from: General Hospital at urban area, and governmental Health Unit at rural, in El-Gharbia Governorate.Tools: tools were used for data collection using I) a women interviewing sheet part II) beliefs assessment tool: based on Health Beliefs Model (HBM) Results: of the current study revealed that level of education, occupation, income per capita, place of residence and marital status were the factors that affect women knowledge regarding breast cancer screening. Based on the HBM construct, the total beliefs score was found significantly difference between different age categories ( f= 3.679,p= 0.003); susceptibility, benefits, severity as well as , Cues to action were found statistically significant differences regarding different levels of education among the study sample respectively. However, the cues to action were found statistically significant difference in relation to type of occupation. Also a significant relationship between total susceptibility, benefits and cues to action in related to income per capita. In addition, a significant relationship was found between benefits, severity in relation to marital statues ( f= 3.242,p=0.02,f= 3.190,p=0.02 respectively) .Also, the results revealed that cues to action was found a statistically significant differences and number of family size ( f= 5.172,p= 0.000.Conclusion and recommendations :Correct faulty information regarding breast cancer screening procedure by formal health instruction and addressing knowledge deficit and barriers to overcoming women underestimation of the value of breast cancer screening

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